A limited-edition hardcover collector’s version of Grateful Dead Origins will be released on Friday, June 12, while a standard softcover edition will arrive on Tuesday, June 16.

As previously announced, the hardcover version will come packaged with a vinyl LP featuring previously unreleased live recordings from an August 21, 1968, concert at the Fillmore West in San Francisco, the cover art for which has now been unveiled. The show included the group’s first known West Coast performance of “St. Stephen.”

“We can’t wait for everyone to see and hear the amazing Origins package and we hope it will provide some comfort to music and graphic novel fans alike during these challenging times,” says Josh Frankel of the Z2 Comics company.

“Our plan was always to time the release to the week of Record Store Day, giving comic shops and booksellers the ultimate music book for their customers. We will still do that, it will just happen in June now.”

The limited-edition version of the novel also will feature exclusive prints and will be autographed by the book’s creators: writer Chris Miskiewicz (pr: miss-KEV-itch) and illustrator Noah Van Sciver (pr: SKY-ver).

Both editions of Grateful Dead Origins also will come with a code to download an exclusive 13-track companion compilation of early recordings by the band, curated by the group’s longtime archivist, David Lemieux (pr: leh-MYUH).